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College
Gates enrolls in Harvard University as a prelaw major. His best subject was math and science and went through all the classes very quickly. He did not graduate from Harvard. He left his Junior year to start Microsoft. -
Honeywell
Paul was later employed by Honeywell and Gates decided to create the first ever personal computer language which was called BASIC. -
Microsoft and PC
Gates and his new friend Paul Allen created Microsoft while at Harvard. Together they created the first PC computer. -
Microsoft opens
Microsoft opens first international office in Japan. The headquarters are located very close to Tokyo. Today, there an abundant amount of stores all over the world filled with computers, tablets, and phones. Microsoft has even released the Hololense. The Hololense can bring distant things to us in a meaningful ways that can interact with some ways, if not physically. -
IBM and Microsoft
Microsoft partners with IBM to write the BASIC for the IBM PC. -
Early Years
When Bill was only 15 years old he was caught hacking into major corporation’s computer and as a consequence, he was forced to give up computing for an entire year. -
Family Life
Bill Gates marries Melinda French and they have three kids together.
Melinda also worked for Microsoft. She is also the co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. -
Bill Gates is Born
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Money!
Microsoft invests $150 million into the brand Apple. It was a huge let down as Bloomberg says it was the worst deal of them all.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-12-09/worst-deal-ever-microsofts-apple-investment -
A new direction
Gates resigns as CEO of Microsoft. He decided to become the technology adviser in a management shake-up. He was more interest in software. -
Awards
Gates and his wife received the Jefferson Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged.
Alone Gates won many awards:
Presidential Media of Freedom
Padma Bhushan
National Medal of Technology and Innovation
Silver Buffalo Award
Lasker- Bloomberg Public Service Award
Bambi- Millennium Award
Bower Award for Business Leadership
Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer
Satellite Special Achievement Award -
Gaming
Xbox revolution starts. Now there has been so many different gaming consoles created.
Link to Keynote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uqzXKMlB6U -
TED Conference
The first TED Conference was held in long beach.
Here is the link to his Ted Talk:
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FInished with college
Bill Gates graduated from Harvard. -
No longer richest man alive.
Gates loses his recognition as the richest man on the planet. Warren Buffet surpassed him. -
Net Worth
He is worth 85.7 billion dollars. Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump are right below him -
YouTube Channel
Bill Gates now has a very successful YouTube channel with 214k subscribers. His channel features saving lives, improving education, and delivering cleaner, cheaper sources of energy. I linked one of his YouTube videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezzktd5poUk
